Die hard Clemson Football fan travels from Pendleton for 315th Tigers game

Officials with the Cotton Bowl are happy with the matchup between Clemson and Notre Dame.
Ken Ruinard / staff

Clemson Football fans Eddie McCurry and his son Trey McCurry pose for a photo at the John F. Kennedy Memorial in Dallas on Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, ahead of the Tigers' Cotton Bowl match-up with Notre Dame on Saturday.(Photo: Gabe Cavallaro/The Greenville News)

When Trey McCurry goes to Saturday's Cotton Bowl, it will be the 315th Clemson football game he's been to.

McCurry, 33, saw his first game at age 2 in 1987 and has been going to at least 10 games per year since 2001, he said. A Pendleton resident, he usually goes to every home game, two to three road games and all the postseason games as well, he said.

The past few years he and his father, Eddie McCurry, of Honea Path, have rang in the new year alongside their beloved Tigers in Phoenix, New Orleans and now Dallas, which they're seeing Dallas for the first time.

The food in New Orleans, which they visited for last year's Sugar Bowl, was great, but they have enjoyed seeing some historical sites in Texas, they said as they visited the John F. Kennedy Memorial Friday.

The McCurrys are confident in a Clemson victory Saturday against Notre Dame.

"We've already started looking at options for San Francisco," Trey McCurry said.

If Clemson wins Saturday, they'll head to the Bay Area to face either Alabama or Oklahoma in the College Football Championship in Santa Clara on Jan. 7, 2019.